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Portrait Painting in Oils with a Limited Colour Palette (1-day workshop)

  • Yardley Arts The Old School Hall, The Square, Yardley Hastings Northampton, England, NN7 1EU United Kingdom (map)
Portrait of a woman with dark long hair

Following on from Cordell’s popular Portrait Painting workshops, this is an exciting painting workshop designed to help students understand colour mixing and design in portraiture using two limited colour palettes.

Students will be able to achieve realistic flesh tones and form through focusing on the key components of value, hue and chroma. Creating a portrait from a photograph, and following a step-by-step process, including setting out your mixing palette, Cordell’s workshop will provide advice and guidance on painting a portrait from a reference photograph.

The process will cover:

  • Using oil paints

  • Measuring and mapping out key features from the photograph

  • The importance of value, hue and chroma in creating portraits

  • Organisation of a limited colour palette and approach to painting

The colour palettes will be:

  • Zorn palette – White, Ivory Black, Yellow Ochre and Cadmium Red

  • Temperature palette – White, Ivory Black and Cadmium Orange

Cordell will provide painting demonstrations during the day and supporting handouts, as part of the workshop, to explain the techniques involved. Suitable for beginners and improvers, you will create a portrait that you will be able to take away with you at the end of the day.

The price varies depending on whether you are bringing your own materials or whether you wish the tutor to supply everything.

from £65.00
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